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Buckinghamshire Community Foundation

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £4.3m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 9 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.heartofbucks.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Buckinghamshire Community Foundation.
Registered
1999

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.3m£3.2m
  • 2024£3.5m£2.8m
  • 2023£3.4m£2.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.5m£1.9m
  • 2021£2.1m£2.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 7%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITY’S CHARITABLE PURPOSES (‘PURPOSES’ IN THIS DOCUMENT), ALSO IT’S OBJECTS FOR THE PURPOSES OF COMPANY LAW, ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:TO PROMOTE OR ADVANCE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COUNTY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE OR OTHER SUCH REGIONS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AS MAY BE BENEFITED BY A FUND MANAGED BY THE CHARITY, AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE FOREGOING):• THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY.• THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION.• THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH OR THE SAVING OF LIVES. THIS INCLUDES THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF SICKNESS, DISEASE OR HUMAN SUFFERING.• THE ADVANCEMENT OF CITIZENSHIP OR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. THIS CAN INCLUDE RURAL OR URBAN REGENERATION AND THE PROMOTION OF CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY, VOLUNTEERING, THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR OR THE EFFECTIVENESS OR EFFICIENCY OF CHARITIES.• THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ARTS, CULTURE, HERITAGE OR SCIENCE.• THE ADVANCEMENT OF AMATEUR SPORT. THIS CAN INCLUDE SPORT OR GAMES WHICH PROMOTE HEALTH BY INVOLVING PHYSICAL OR MENTAL SKILL OR EXERTION.• THE ADVANCEMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS, CONFLICT RESOLUTION OR RECONCILIATION OR THE PROMOTION OF RELIGIOUS OR RACIAL HARMONY OR EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY.• THE ADVANCEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION OR IMPROVEMENT.• THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE. THIS CAN INCLUDE RELIEF GIVEN BY THE PROVISION OF ACCOMMODATION OR CARE TO THE RELEVANT PERSONS.• THE PROMOTION OF THE EFFICIENCY OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE CROWN, OR OF THE EFFICIENCY OF THE POLICE, FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES OR AMBULANCE SERVICES.

Grants received

21 grants · £1,480,868 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

13 trustees on the board

4.4y median 4y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (1)

12
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 13General Charitable Purposes 13The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 12The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Business services 13Education 4Other services 4

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£4.3m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

0.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 9.7 in 2021

16 from 9 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1073861
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 5 NOVEMBER 1998 AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION UPON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 28 OCTOBER 2008 NOW ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 11 DECEMBER 2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13 JUN 2019AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 22 APR 2021
Companies House
Company number 03662246 · Active
Contact on the register
01296 330134 · info@heartofbucks.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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